Edgar Bergen
Motion Pictures Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
Edgar Bergen
Television Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
Edgar Bergen
Radio Category Star
- Ceremony was on February 8, 1960
The Homecoming
A Christmas Story
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Edgar Bergen plus 2 other Hollywood Walk of Famers!
- EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/movies/homecoming-a-christmas-story.php] - YOUTUBE:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gyf5ii4hWg] - DVD AT AMAZON:
[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000AQS5E]
Edgar Bergen
Comic Edgar Bergen dies in his sleep at 75
From AP and UPI
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Edgar Bergen, who brought life to a wooden dummy named Charlie McCarthy, died in his sleep Saturday at the age of 75.
Less than two weeks ago, Bergen announced that he and McCarthy, a top-hatted, monocled dummy, were quitting show business after a 53-year partnership.
A spokesman for Caesar's Palace Hotel here said Bergen died at about noon Saturday. The cause of death was not determined.
"He was having his last show business engagement before retiring." said Harry Wald, a hotel spokesman. Bergen was to have played Caesar's until Oct. 11.
ON SEPT. 21, Bergen and his irrepressible wooden partner met reporters in Los Angeles to announce the end of their careers. "How can you retire," the dummy asked Bergen, "when you haven't worked since you met me?"
When asked why he planned to retire, Bergen said: "Because I get tired of working and saving money and sharing it with those who didn't."
After the Las Vegas engagement, Bergen planned appearances in Cleveland and Cincinnati in December. After that, Charlie McCarthy would move into the Smithsonian Institution, he said.
Bergen was a soft-spoken comedian who hid behind the brash smart-aleck antics of Charlie McCarthy to become the most famous ventriloquist in history.
THOUGH Bergen's career spanned six decades, he was probably best known to a new generation as the father of actress Candice Bergen.
Born in Chicago, the second son of Swedish immigrants John and Nellie Bergen, young Edgar parlayed a 25-cent Investment he made as a schoolboy into a fortune as an entertainer.
While in grammar school, he spent the quarter for a copy of "Herrmann's Wizard's Manual," which included directions for cutting off a man's head and for mastering the art of ventriloquy.
That was the only money...
